Employer's Insurance of Wausau v. Brown

McMurray, Judge,

concurring in part and dissenting ..in part.

This case involves the doctrine of concurrent similar employment by the claimants’ decedent for two separate employers. In this instance a pulpwood worker (claimants’ decedent) who was employed as a "slasher operator” in cutting up whole trees was also employed by one of the independent contractors to that worker’s prime employer in the cutting of pulpwood. The evidence disclosed that neither of these jobs was considered high risk, although this worker was killed on the job. As a slasher operator he cut up the trees or logs being…